Lucent Technologies Introduces Inferno 1.0.MURRAY HILL Murray Hill may refer to one of the following places:
Real-Time Network Operating System An operating system that is designed for network use. Normally, it is a complete operating system with file, task and job management; however, with some earlier products, it was a separate component that ran under the OS; for example, LAN Server required OS/2, and LANtastic required DOS. Provides a Powerful Platform For Business Applications Development Lucent Technologies'Inferno(TM) Network Software business today announced Inferno Release 1.0 -- a real-time network operating system (OS) that provides a software infrastructure for businesses to create distributed network applications. Inferno 1.0 provides end-to-end connectivity End-to-end connectivity is a property of the Internet that allows all nodes of the network to send packets to all other nodes of the network, without requiring intermediate network elements to further interpret them. It was for the first time implemented in the CYCLADES-network. over the public telephone network, the Internet, corporate networks, cable television and satellite broadcast. With Inferno, networking and security protocols are built in the OS, and applications run unchanged across any communications network The transmission channels interconnecting all client and server stations as well as all supporting hardware and software. or device. The product has a very small memory footprint, allowing it to act as a stand-alone OS on information appliances and run as an application on network elements -- such as servers, routers and switches -- using UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). or Microsoft NT platforms. "Inferno is a full-featured operating system for customers developing heavy-weight network applications for all types of information and communication devices," said Mike Skarzynski, vice president and general manager for Inferno Network Software Solutions. "In today's complex mix of networks, customers can use Inferno to capitalize on new business opportunities while leveraging existing hardware and software investments." OmniBox, a provider and developer of interactive services and programming for the home electronic commerce market, is an Inferno 1.0 customer. Thomas A. Bush, president of OmniBox, said, "Our goal with the OmniBox Network is to help communications distributors in all channels reach many businesses, households, universities and hospitals. We chose to build our services architecture on Inferno because it provides the flexibility, openness and robustness that such a sophisticated electronic commerce system requires." The Inferno 1.0 operating system includes the Styx communications protocols, the Limbo programming language and the Dis "virtual machine." Applications and services developed from other programming languages, such as Java, C and C++, are supported by Inferno 1.0. The new release of Inferno also includes drivers for speech and audio applications, and open database connectivity See ODBC. (standard, database) Open DataBase Connectivity - (ODBC) A standard for accessing different database systems. There are interfaces for Visual Basic, Visual C++, SQL and the ODBC driver pack contains drivers for the Access, Paradox, dBase, Text, Excel and Btrieve (ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) A database programming interface from Microsoft that provides a common language for Windows applications to access databases on a network. ) for Informix, Microsoft, Sybase and Oracle databases. Enhanced documentation, training and support include programmer's and user's guides, a Limbo programming course and a support hotline for developers. Inferno 1.0 runs as a stand-alone operating system on small devices which use Hitachi SH3, DEC StrongArm, Intel Architecture, MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. , Motorola 68030, Power PC, SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill and ARM processors. The product also can be hosted as a virtual system on Sun Solaris, Silicon Graphics IRIX A Unix-based operating system from SGI that is used in its computer systems from desktop to supercomputer. It is an enhanced version of Unix System V Release 4. IRIX integrates the X Window system with OpenGL, creating the first real time 3D X environment. , DEC Alpha, HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , and Microsoft NT and Win95. "There is great synergy between Inferno and other products and services offered through Lucent Technologies," said Gerry Butters, president, North America Region for Lucent Technologies' Network Systems business. "We are committed to using 'Inferno Inside' all the network elements and software solutions we provide." More than 10,000 developers are currently working with the Inferno network operating system. Customers interested in obtaining an Inferno 1.0 Development Kit (which includes the entire system, sample applications, developer toolkit and documentation) should call 1-888-LUCENT8. Evaluation copies of the product and application demonstrations are available on the World Wide Web at http://www.lucent.com/inferno/. Lucent Technologies designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, consumer and business telephone systems and microelectronics components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company. Lucent Technologies was formed as a result of AT&T's restructuring and became a fully independent company -- separate from AT&T -- on September 30, 1996. CONTACT: Glynnis Woolridge Lucent Technologies - Bell Labs Work 908.582.4120 Email glynnis@lucent.com or Dick Muldoon Lucent Technologies - Bell Labs Work 908.582.5330 Email rpmuldoon@lucent.com |
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